Jean-Georges Vongerichten

WATCH: Danny Bowien Makes Jimmy Fallon Cook With Absurdly Huge Chopsticks

by Tina Nguyen

Yes, they look like props from a late night comedy show -- but any self-respecting Asian knows of the enormous chopsticks that their parents used for stir-frying. (Remember, the ones the length of a child's entire arm?). Danny Bowien respects the giant chopsticks.

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Eddie Huang On Cooking With Weed (And Cheetos)

by Tina Nguyen

Incredible revelations about the Human Panda abound in the latest edition of High Times. For instance: did you know that Eddie Huang smokes the reefer? If you didn't, prepare to be totally astounded by the rhapsody of weed that is this interview.

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Martha Stewart On Her Ex-Husband: 'He Went Nuts And Left Me! Can You Imagine?'

by Mariella Mosthof

Martha Stewart stopped by The Dr. Oz Show today to hawk her new book Living the Good Long Life, and while conversation turned inevitably to her Match.com dating life, she revealed a few bawdy tidbits we didn't expect to hear from ever-cordial Martha.

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GIVEAWAY: Tickets To Meet (And Eat With!) Adam Richman And 40 Of NYC's Best Chefs

by Laura Norkin

Richman's hosting the NYC event for the third year in a row, and says, "whenever you have a chef that's like, 'this is just something I'm playing with,' you know that's always going to be the dope shit." You know what else is dope? Winning free tickets to The New Taste of the Upper West Side. See how right here:

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Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Food Porn

WATCH: Mark Bittman Declares Jean-Georges’ Molten Chocolate Cake ‘The Big Mac Of Desserts’

by Tina Nguyen 4:17 pm, May 1st

Vongerichten can claim parental rights to lava cake. Or that, much like a guy who went to a sperm bank for beer money in college, he’s ended up with a lot of chocolate lava cake progeny.
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Interviews

Wylie Dufresne: ‘Delicious Is The Most Important Thing’ And How To Not Stab Yourself

by Laura Norkin 9:05 am, April 8th

This week I had the pleasure of chatting with Wylie Dufresne on the state of celebrity chefdom, his new East Village neighborhood hang, Alder, and how awesome it was to be on Treme. He refuses to engage with me on the “Molecular Gastronomy” debate, and gives near-constant props to some of his peers in the game, even celebrating those who’ve become all-out media moguls. If his goal is to have Alder be the ’round-the-way restaurant you just want to stop in for an easy bite, well, I can’t think of any chef who’d make a better neighbor.
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Hurricane Sandy

Jean-Georges Vongerichten Reopens Perry Street Four Months After Hurricane Sandy Destroyed It

by Mariella Mosthof 12:46 pm, March 9th

More than four months after Hurricane Sandy hit, Perry Street is reopening once again, after a makeover from its original architect Thomas Juul-Hansen.
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Education

WATCH: Thomas Keller, Daniel Boulud, And Jean-Georges Vongerichten Give Paul Bocuse An Enormous Birthday Cake

by Tina Nguyen 3:05 pm, March 6th

In this three-part talk, they discuss the nature of culinary success, how the food world has changed since Bocuse began his career over sixty years ago (the man is 87!), and — to celebrate his birthday — how to cut an enormous, seven-foot-tall cake.
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Social Media

Your Morning Tweet: Jean-Georges Dreams Of Jiro

by Tina Nguyen 9:28 am, January 28th

“JIRO dream of Sushi” — JG Vongerichten (@jeangeorges) January 28, 2013
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TV

WATCH: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Dishes On Asian Expansion Plans

by Mariella Mosthof 4:43 pm, January 11th

Richard Quest hauled his CNN International crew over to Jean Georges to talk shop on today’s Quest Means Business, and got the scoop on where JGV is looking to expand his empire next.
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Last Call

Last Call: Hugh Jackman Wants To Set Up His Son With Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Daughter

by Mariella Mosthof 5:57 pm, January 2nd

Plus: Subway’s latest terrible condiment, the newest Voltaggio restaurant review, and 2012′s most-expensed “restaurant.”
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Lists

11 Chefs Share Their Best Hangover Cures

by Tina Nguyen 9:53 am, January 1st

Shhhhh, shh. It’s all right, we know that you’ve had a rough night last night. We’ll make this easy for you: here are tips from 11 chefs on their tried-and-true methods for curing your hangover.
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Tricks Of The Trade

WATCH: Jean-Georges Vongerichten Wants To Know What Grant Achatz Is Smoking

by Tina Nguyen 12:40 pm, November 30th

It’s a question all of food aficionados have asked at one point or another, but only Jean-Georges Vongerichten had the candor to ask it: what kind of crazy drug is Grant Achatz on that gives him such cracked-out inspiration?
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Tricks Of The Trade

Why Jean-Georges Vongerichten Gets Better Room Service Than You Ever Will

by Tina Nguyen 11:10 am, November 27th

A writer from Bon Appetit had a slumber party with Vongerichten and his family in their two-bedroom suite at the hotel, where he learned, among other things, what having your own restaurant providing you room service actually means.
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